Church mediators 'not honest' - Zimbabwe

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A bid by Zimbabwe's churches to start negotiations between President Robert Mugabe and the opposition was in jeopardy on Thursday after a top government minister denounced some of the religious leaders as opposition "activists" under the control of "foreign masters".

Less than a week after Mugabe met three Christian leaders, Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa was quoted as saying Anglican Bishop Sebastian Bakare, the head of the Protestant Zimbabwe Council of Churches, and Bishop Trevor Manhanga, the president of the Evangelical Fellowship of Zimbabwe, a church umbrella body, were "not honest brokers".

"Their interest is out of self-interest," Chinamasa told the daily Herald. "They are MDC (Movement for Democratic Change) activists wearing religious collars."

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/0,,2-11-259_1395541,00.html

Hey, we've got a bunch of them too! They play with our children in church.

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